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Next week I will try to put up sections that will help to organise (y)our thoughts about the structure of 1 Timothy.
During his fourth missionary journey Paul had instructed Timothy to care for the church at Ephesus (1:3) while he went on to Macedonia.
ReplyDeleteWhen he realised that he might not return to Ephesus in the near future (3:14-15) he wrote this first letter to Timothy:
1: to develop the charge he had given his young assistant (1:3, 18)
2: to refute false teachings (1:3-7; 4:1-8; 6:3-5,20-21)
3: to supervise the affairs of the growing Ephesian church
4: and the appointment of qualified church leaders, 3:1-13; 5:17-25).
A major problem in the Ephesian church was a heresy that combined Gnosticism, decadent Judaism (1:3-7) and false asceticism (4:1-5).
http://www.biblestudytools.com/1-timothy/
Paul's closeness to and admiration for Timothy:
DeletePaul names him as the co-sender of six of his letters (2 Corinthians, Philippians, Colossians, 1,2 Thessalonians and Philemon)
He speaks highly of him to the Philippians (Php 2:19-22)
At the end of Paul's life he requested Timothy to join him at Rome (2Ti 4:9,21)
According to Heb 13:23, Timothy himself was imprisoned and subsequently released.
Timothy was not an apostle. He was an apostolic representative, delegated to carry out special work (cf. Tit 1:5).
Long biog of Timothy, inc. family background:
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